The history of Florida can be traced back to when the first Native Americans began to inhabit the peninsula as early as 14,000 years ago. Recorded history begins with the arrival of Europeans to Florida, beginning with the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce De Leon who explored the area in 1513. Since that time Florida has had a long history of immigration, including French and Spanish settlement during the 16th century, as well as entry of new Native American groups migrating from elsewhere in the South. Florida was under colonial rule by Spain and Great Britain during the 18th and 19th centuries before becoming a territory in 1822 of the United States. Two decades later, in 1845, Florida was admitted to the union as the 27th US state. First permanent European settlement is established in 1565 in St. Augustine by Spain.
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According to the 2005 census, the racial distributions are as follows; 60.1% White, 17% African American, 2.1% Asian American, 1.4% others (American Indian), and the remaining 18% are Hispanics or Latino (of any race, but mostly white).
Political upheaval in Cuba created new waves of Cuban immigrants to the U.S. In 1959, after the Cuban Revolution led by Fidel Castro, a large Cuban exodus began as the new government allied itself with the Soviet Union and began to introduce communism. From 1960 to 1979, hundreds of thousands of Cubans left Cuba and began a new life in the United States.
As you can see below most Cubans mainly fled to Florida. In the 1990s so that only Cubans who reach U.S. soil are granted refuge under the "wet feet, dry feet policy".
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